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How much is your patchwork of third-party security solutions actually costing you? This economic impact study examines the value of a single, integrated security system–Microsoft Office 365 Threat Intelligence. It also explores the benefits of a system that works to proactively identify and respond to threats across an entire organization.

View: The total economic impact of Microsoft Office 365 threat intelligence

It’s one thing to predict financial benefits during a switchover, but it’s another thing to provide the data to back up actual savings. Forrester Research interviewed six customers, aggregated data, and produced a report of the five-year Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Azure IaaS.

Forrester concluded that there were four main challenges solved by Azure IaaS: continuously growing IT costs, limited ability to scale infrastructure, complex global expansion issues, and high process costs. Over five years, the ROI was 435% with $27.6 million in total benefits!

For a more detailed look at the data, read the entire report here: The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Azure IaaS

View: Microsoft Azure IaaS has the data to back it up

To us, Advanced Threat Protection is a process that works to holistically safeguard your organization and your users from all angles. Check out this infographic to learn more about the various elements of Advanced Threat Protection, all working in concert to provide the best possible security strategy for your school while reducing complexity.

View: Advanced threat protection: An integrated cybersecurity solution

Safety is a priority for companies, especially those working in industries where a few seconds can mean a significant deficit for thousands of customers.

This time we show how companies such as Lizo partner their apps with Microsoft Azure for instant status updates of facilities and equipment that are vital for site operators to maintain safety around the globe. Their customers funnel real-time data from multiple sources into a single platform. Their facility oversight is improved, their operations are more efficient, and the workplace safety is right where it should be—at the top.

Watch this video to see how other data-driven companies could partner with Microsoft Azure to offer cloud-based software solutions to customers who need real-time response.

Detection and protection work hand-in-hand to keep malicious phishing and spoofing emails out of student and faculty inboxes. Check out this video to learn more about the specific strategies of each to identify and remove suspicious content where it could cause harm.

Our educational institutions are constantly facing complex security challenges. In order to handle everything from physical security to data protection, most schools have multiple systems in place-all working hard but not working together. This e-book examines the problems schools are facing and how an integrated solution can save money, increase effectiveness, and reduce IT burdens.

View: Digital transformation in education: Smart and secure campus

It is easy to think of physical and digital security as occurring in two separate worlds. In reality, they do share some overlap and so do their defense solutions. Check out this infographic to learn more about the variety of threats facing universities and the integrated solutions available to tackle them.

View: Keep students safe online and on campus

It’s no secret that more people, more than ever, are more digitally connected. The underlying network needed to support this connectivity must be faster, closer, and smarter, according to Forbes contributor Steve Alexander.

“On-demand content, bandwidth-hungry mobile apps, IoT devices, and new cloud-based applications are driving the need for more bandwidth and network capacity,” Alexander writes. He reminds us that “fast ethernet” used to be the descriptive phrase for the network edge, and that over time we have quickly increased connectivity times—because users’ needs demand it. This is no exception. “Since its inception, the internet has a been a catalyst for service providers to facilitate faster connectivity, an imperative that will increase over time,” states Alexander.

Read the entire article, “The Network in 2020: Faster, Closer, Smarter” for valuable insight on why network requirements will continue to align with the need for cloud services.

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University IT teams have the huge task of monitoring and responding to threats across multiple vectors, including emails, academic resources, and internal networks. This video explores the various components of Microsoft Threat Protection, which helps IT teams more effectively track and respond to attacks on their organizations.

Curious about the ROI of Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)? Have a look at this infographic that shows Forrester’s conclusions after six customer interviews and data aggregation for a five-year financial impact.

Businesses experienced reduced data center and outsourcing costs, website scale and performance improvements, ease of experimentation through virtualized environments, and developer and testers enhancements.

Want to learn more about the potential ROI that could be realized by shifting some or all of your management and operations to Azure? Contact us today.

View: MS Azure IaaS TEI Infographic